Well, Dick Cavett is still alive. That’s good to know. He’s also hale and hearty enough to pick up and run with the media’s double standard when it comes to the presidential candidates. The former TV talk show host believes Donald Trump, and not notorious liar and press conference-avoider Hillary Clinton, is getting a pass from the media.
Writing in the September 15 Hollywood Reporter, Cavett, 79, attacked the Commander in Chief Forum, accusing Matt Lauer of allowing Trump to “spew some of his trade-mark, semi grammatical gobbledygook unchallenged” without “insisting on accuracy or some basic, easily verifiable factuality.”
Yes, any moderator should insist upon those things from candidates. But of course, Cavett wasn’t bothered by Clinton’s inaccuracy and “gobbledygook.” Lauer had no reaction to her claim that, “We did not lose a single American in [Libya],” when four Americans were killed in Benghazi in 2012. What about the lie that a film caused the Benghazi attack. Or the lie about her emails. Or the lie about her not lying about her emails.
Cavett went on to recall a time when a man (conservative, of course) on his show answered a question with “such an impenetrable fog of an answer” that Cavett replied, "Do you think, now, that perhaps you could come up with an answer at least remotely related to the question I asked?”
Now turning that question on Trump, Cavett audaciously asked, “Who would have dreamed that one day a man running for president of the United States of America would deserve such a remark?” Well, who would have dreamed that the media double standard would be so blatant as to only accuse Trump of failing to answer questions/lying while giving one of the biggest perpetrators, Clinton, a pass?
Continuing with his selective outrage, Cavett offered a list of questions for confronting Trump, the first of which asked, “When did it occur to you that you have what it takes to be POTUS? Before or after you were caught as a child throwing rocks at an infant in a playpen over a fence?”
Seriously? Can we ask Clinton if she wanted to be a champion for women’s rights before or after attempting to intimidate, silence, and destroy the characters of the women who accused Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting them? Or before or after she laughed about helping a man get away with raping a 12-year-old?
Cavett also questioned Trump’s presidential ambitions, suggesting a desire to simply have buildings constructed in Russia, or avoid the Trump University lawsuit. Of course, Cavett didn’t wonder about Clinton’s conflicts of interests regarding the Clinton Foundation. A supposed ally of the LGBT community, the Foundation has accepted at least $25.5 million from eight nations that murder homosexuals. As well as the other sketchy dealings of the Foundation.
But when it comes to liberals in the media, there are two sets of rules, and even Dick Cavett is up to using them.
